Community Safety

The community safety specialization is designed for the student who works in or wants to work in a public safety agency and desires to combine select courses from a variety of related disciplines into a cohesive degree. To meet the requirements for the community safety specialization, students must satisfactorily complete 86 credit hours, including:

Degree Requirements

As part of the General Curriculum Distribution requirements (hours count to fulfill the GCDR but not the specialization):

PSY 200	General Psychology	4
SOC 100	Introduction to Sociology	4

A minimum of 46 credit hours in the specialization, consisting of:

CRM 101	Introduction to Criminology	4
CRM 102	Introduction to Criminal Justice	4
CRM 200	Law Enforcement	4
CRM 300	Victimology	4
GWA 204	Introduction to Law and the Legal System	4
HIS 325	Narcotic Drugs and Modern Society	4
HSC 150	Emergency Response	3
UST 210	Urban Politics and Policy	4
	or
UST 304	Public Policy Analysis	4
PHL 202	Ethics	4

At least one of the following courses:

GWA 314	U.S. National Security Policy	4
GWA 402	Constitutional Law and the Supreme Court	4
GWA 404	Gender, Sexuality, and the Law	4
GWA 407	Constitutional Law, Race Relations and Emerging Civil Rights Doctrines	4
GWA 408	The First Amendment and the Supreme Court	4

3 elective credit hours (in addition to the above course) in health science (HSC)

At least one of the following:

SOC 310	Applied Sociology	4
SOC 302	Sociology of Aging	4
SOC 313	Social Stratification	4
SOC 320/WST 320	Sociology of Gender	4
SOC 304	Public Policy Analysis	4
SOC 306	Racial and Ethnic Relations	4

At least 15 of the above credit hours must be earned at the University.

At least 16 of the above credit hours must be earned in courses at the 300-level or higher.

44 credit hours may be earned through electives of the student’s choosing.